Communicative efficiency: challenges and trends
- V. 19, N. 2 (2020)
- Submitted: Jul 13, 2020
- Published: Aug 7, 2020
- DOI 10.25189/rabralin.v19i2.1579
Abstract
This text is a review of the lecture entitled Communicative efficiency, information theory and the limits of human mind delivered by Dr. Natalia Levshina at Abralin ao vivo – Linguists online event on July 6th, 2020. Through her talk, the lecturer seeks to problematize the issue of communicative efficiency ant its relationship with information theory and pragmatics, using linguistic examples both from human speech and artificial languages. At the end of her argumentation, the researcher talks about challenges and points out some possible solutions for the development of communicative efficiency theory using for that experiments with artificial language learning.
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